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October 2, 2020

fall cleanup with ecology in mind, with doug tallamy

WHEN I LAST TALKED to Doug Tallamy in February around the publication date of his latest book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” I didn’t want to go..

July 4, 2020

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be a discerning shopper for native plants, with uli lorimer

AS MORE GARDENERS shop for native plants each year, more plant descriptions in catalogs and on nursery labels use the blanket phrase “pollinator-friendly” to catch..

May 20, 2020

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‘instant’ water garden: try seasonal troughs

NOTHING ADDS MORE TO A GARDEN THAN WATER. Just ask the birds, frogs, and insects—oh, and human visitors, too. It’s a magical element, providing sustenance..

March 6, 2020

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create a pollinator victory garden, with kim eierman

ONE OF THE MOST common questions that garden centers and other garden professionals are asked these days: How can I add more pollinator plants? Kim..

March 4, 2020

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growing hellebores, with judith knott tyler

ON A FORMER Virginia tobacco farm that was in her family for six generations, Judith Knott Tyler and her husband, Dick, spent 30ish years breeding..

February 22, 2020

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which native plants, and how to make room for them, with ken druse

GARDENERS INCLUDING myself want to add more, more, more native plants to their landscapes to support pollinators and birds and other native wildlife, but what..

February 7, 2020

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how conservation starts in your yard: doug tallamy on ‘nature’s best hope’

‘NATURE’S BEST HOPE’ is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to..

October 5, 2019

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thoughts on invasives, plant conservation–and connection, with michael piantedosi

SOMETIMES WHEN WEEDING in my own garden, I get a sense of overwhelm, a feeling that the unwanted plants are winning. If a gardener can..

June 1, 2019

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choosing the right native plants, with uli lorimer

I HEAR MANY TIMES each week from readers or listeners wanting advice about native plants—about pollinator plants, for instance, or making a meadow, or which..

March 16, 2019

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tips for planting under trees; using ‘pea brush’ and more: q&a with ken druse

THANKS TO YOUR BOUNTIFUL supply of Urgent Garden Questions, my friend Ken Druse and I are being kept busy. In our latest Q&A edition of..

March 9, 2019

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growing epimediums in the shade garden, with karen perkins

I WILL CONFESS right off, I love epimediums, but apparently not as much as Karen Perkins, who boasts the largest selection of these choice perennial..

February 23, 2019

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a plant i’d order: hakonechloa ‘all gold’

IT GROWS IN SHADE, READS AS SOLID GOLD, and looks good from early May to sometime in winter, I think, faded to wheat-color and partly..

November 23, 2018

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taking stock of our native flora and newcomers, with nybg’s robert naczi

WHEN YOU’RE TALKING plants and not people, how do you figure out who lives where? You can’t send census takers door to door to get..

July 22, 2018

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defining ‘native’ and choosing the right native plants, with dan jaffe

WHAT MAKES a particular native plant a good choice for the home garden? And where can we look for clues into which natives will do..

July 15, 2018

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underplanting: making ‘a tapestry garden,’ with marietta o’byrne

WHEN I TALK ABOUT intermingling several plants to serve as a mixed groundcover, perhaps under trees and shrubs, I often refer to the idea as..

FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST

how conservation starts in your yard, with doug tallamy

‘NATURE’S BEST HOPE’ is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.” In other words, you and I are nature’s best hope. Our actions count, and they add up to counteract a fragmented landscape and other challenges to the survival of so many critically important native creatures and the greater environment we all share.

Doug Tallamy’s 2007 book, “Bringing Nature Home,” has been for many of us a wake-up call into the entire subject of the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife, and now with more than a decade of additional research insights, he goes further.

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